Comments on: West Seattleites to Metro: ‘Relieve overcrowding; make buses show up on time; get more $’http://westseattleblog.com/2013/01/west-seattleites-to-metro-relieve-overcrowding-make-buses-show-up-on-time-get-more/
West Seattle news, 24/7Sat, 10 Dec 2016 04:42:50 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Robin Oliverhttp://westseattleblog.com/2013/01/west-seattleites-to-metro-relieve-overcrowding-make-buses-show-up-on-time-get-more/#comment-964543
Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:45:18 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-964543This morning the C Line was already standing-room-only by the time it got to California & Findlay SW (the stop before the Junction) on the way downtown, and by 35th & Avalon people were packed in like sardines. If you’re elderly, disabled, or carrying heavy bags of groceries, the C Line is not an option. Metro needs to admit that the “Rapid Ride” is a failure and look at bringing back some of the routes that were discontinued or shortened, such as the 54 and 22.
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Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:57:29 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-960501I feel that the Westwood and South Delridge neighborhoods lack a voice with the City and the County. I would like to start a neighborhood council. If you are interested, please contact me at velmolux@gmail.com
]]>By: Westseattle Riderhttp://westseattleblog.com/2013/01/west-seattleites-to-metro-relieve-overcrowding-make-buses-show-up-on-time-get-more/#comment-959370
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:06:34 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-959370Last week the c-line, which I Pick up right before the west Seattle bridge, was so crowded going into downtown, 2 buses wouldn’t let me on. Of course it has increased ridership if you have removed all other opportunities to take a bus except the Crap line and the 21 to downtown when I used to have 5 different options…
Great job metro.
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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:25:13 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-958729Rancid Ride

Racket Ride

oh also, the 56 goes by me every morning, as i wait for the bus to go to alki, The driver turns off the sign and whizzes by, Like it would be so awful if they picked up a couple of people on the way to the layover on alki. That is a huge waste of resources…the drivers who do that should be ashamed.

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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:21:59 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-958728The Admiral district has been royally screwed. Bringing back the 55 during peak hours would fix it. Also the new busses have LESS Smaller seats?? whats up with that?? no padding on them?? The people who run metro are a JOKE. They dont care about seattle, or bus riers.
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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:07:13 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-958647Sad to say I sat on the Rapid Ride Advisory Board back in 2006. Many of the items we wanted didn’t reach fruition. And one of the plans presented to us was that RR buses from West Seattle would go downtown and come back to WS. Same with Ballard. The fact that we still have buses leaving WS and heading north to Ballard is a backtrack from the plan presented to the board. And in so many other areas of the RR coming to W.S. being so poor, I’ve been incentivized to turn in my ORCA card and drive my car to work daily. I’m so unimpressed with R.R. I could cry.
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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:09:54 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-958056The ridership chart linked above is a total piece of crap. The author is listed as Bruce Nourish; wasn’t there a Metro apologist named Bruce continually posting here when the changes first took effect, saying the same thing? That anyone who complains is a whiner who “doesn’t know what they’re talking about”? This has been Metro’s stance all along, which explains a lot.
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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:54:46 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-957899Someday maybe Metro’s overbloated staff of social engineers will figure out that if you attack car traffic to increase congestion, there will be no way for buses to escape it.
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They couldn’t have done a worse job if they had deliberately planned for chaos and dysfunction.
]]>By: dianehttp://westseattleblog.com/2013/01/west-seattleites-to-metro-relieve-overcrowding-make-buses-show-up-on-time-get-more/#comment-957834
Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:20:23 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-957834I have a friend who works for Metro and even he says they should have separated the West Seattle line from the Ballard Line they go from one end of the city to the other. That is why they are consistently off schedule.
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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:17:08 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-957776I’ve stopped riding the C-Line, at least in the morning. I can handle being that uncomfortable on the ride home, but it’s just a crappy way to start the day.

I know Ballard has bigger problems, so I don’t want to seem like I’m complaining too much. It just sucks that service was *so* much better before the switch to RapidRide. Big waste of money :-/

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:45:31 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-957674I asked why they weren’t planning a dedicated bus lane all the way into town at one of the meetings and was told “there is only so much right of way” well exactly. more people, same amount of roadway, thus the need for more & better transit now & future. instead we get less. It is nice that metro listens to comments but true “improvement” would have to involve more than just metro – it requires coordination, physical infrastructure, funding…and political will. So long as there are drivers complaining about bus lanes and property owners jealously guarding onstreet parking – it’s an uphill ride.
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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:10:49 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-957630My doctor thinks Metro is great. The new routes give me an extra hour of walking most every day.
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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:54:13 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-957606I think the numbers that metro presented are very deceiving. They are comparing existing routes to existing routes. They only show the deleted 54/54x as the C line. Wasn’t there a bunch of other routes that were deleted/reduced? Seems like a lot of riders have been shifted to new transit corridors not an increase in ridership. I haven’t heard anyone say I just started riding the bus because of the C line!
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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:08:37 +0000http://westseattleblog.com/?p=137350#comment-957594Seattle Transit Blog says “you don’t know what you are talking about”